Dubai: An Umayyad era story of love, sacrifice and toil of a lover has come to life at the centre stage of Global Village through a grand scale musical production 'Silk Road - The Journey of a Unique Necklace'.

Among the topics are from the Dome of the Chain to Mihrab Da'ud: the transformation of an Umayyad commemorative site at the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem, an Italian Renaissance gate for the Khan: visual culture in early modern Crimea, a missing royal mosque in Istanbul that Islamized a Catholic space: the Galata New Mosque, Adham Isma'il's Arabesque: the making of a radical Arab painting in Syria, (re)writing the early biography of the Alhambra's Fountain of Lions: new evidence from a neo-Latin poem of 1497, and between Istanbul and Gujarat: descriptions of Mecca in the 16th-century Indian Ocean.

The seized collection contains 17 metal coins from the Greco-Roman era, one from the Umayyad period, two from the Ottoman period, and ten from Mohamed Ali Pasha's reign, as well as coins belonging to foreign countries, as Ahmed Al-Rawi, head of the Central Administration of the Archaeological Units in Egyptian Ports, explained.

That was the year a Muslim general called Tariq bin Ziyad, at the bequest of the Umayyad Caliph Al Walid I, landed on the rock that would thereafter be known as his rock, "Jebel Al Tariq," from which is derived the modern name Gibraltar.

As a collection, the chapters stretch the notion of "late antiquity" both chronologically, by extending from the later Roman empire to Arab scholars at Baghdad during the eleventh century, and geographically, by linking the eastern Mediterranean under Roman rule with the Sasanian empire in Iraq, the Umayyad empire in Syria, Arabs at Medina and Mecca, and finally the Abbasid empire in Iraq and Iran.

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